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Plays and Playwrights.

The Act for the protection of dramatic copyright having passed the Senate and the House of Representatives, all the great American dramatists hastened en masse to the tumble-down District-Attorney's office, in College-place, to register the titles of their plays. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on September 9, 1856, on Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Plays and Playwrights. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe